re: Star Trek posters and old buildings are racist.

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so that’s a point of criticism if you want to actually engage with their argument.

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No, stupidity like this should not be engaged, simply automatically dismissed. Marxism has failed every time it was tried, regardless of the paint colors you try to use "this time".

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I’m not saying it’ll sway your mind in a different direction,

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It won't because time and money should not have been wasted by a supposed institute of higher learning on such ridiculous studies.

Regardless of the findings, or how they were articulated, the entire purpose is irrelevant.

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Anyone who thinks Star Trek is racist isn't paying attention.

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First interracial kiss on TV was on Star Trek.

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Star Trek posters, Antebellum architecture, Greek organizations, soda can pyramids in computer science buildings, ornate plaques near gates

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All things that are considered part of the "Four Olds"

For those unaware of the terminology:

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The term "Four Olds" was first introduced in a People's Daily editorial on June 1, 1966, by Chen Boda. It referred to the elements of Chinese culture that the Red Guards, a youth paramilitary group, sought to destroy during the Cultural Revolution initiated by Mao Zedong. The Four Olds were defined as:
Old Ideas: Traditional beliefs and philosophies that contradicted communist ideology.
Old Culture: Cultural artifacts, literature, and practices that were seen as feudal or bourgeois.
Old Customs: Traditional practices and rituals that were viewed as outdated or oppressive.
Old Habits: Behaviors and social norms that were considered remnants of the past and incompatible with the new socialist values.

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lol. The bottom is so much deeper than ever imagined.

The study doesn’t actually state or imply that Star Trek is racist. It just points, in its background section, to an older study that found that removing ‘stereotypical’ computer science objects, like Star Trek posters and video games, from a computer science classroom and replacing them with random objects raised female undergrad interest in the computer science classroom to that of male classmates. Basically, if you take out all of the nerd memorabilia, girls aren’t afraid to dork out on computers, too.

The overall study is junk, though. They spend pages and pages theorizing about how the symbolism contained in the design of college campuses is making low-SES and minority students feel excluded. They talk about their first study where they literally had 8 grad students go around campus and say, “Yep, that looks like a poor. They’re sitting in a way that takes up less space than a rich kid. Probably because of all that poverty.” I’m not kidding. Then they test their design/exclusion theory by asking students if they feel comfortable doing a bunch of random, low-inhibition crap in public areas of campus and say, “Yep, low-SES and minority students feel less inclined to do expressive/performative crap in public spaces. Probably for the design/architectural reasons we guessed and definitely NOT because of, oh I dunno, variations in cultural norms or non-architectural causes of repression. But not definitely, because we didn’t actually test whether the space itself made them uncomfortable in any meaningful way. Tune in for our third round of this study, where we again utterly fail to actually test our underlying hypothesis and instead just drone on about how the design of UVA really just bums us all out!”

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From your Marxist

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was pointing more towards the low IQ, white trash MAGA types.

They're the truly stupid bastards that are told what to believe.

And I guarantee you, you don't even know what a Marxist is. You've just been told to say that by the retards you listen too.

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anything celebrating individual self-expression or independent thinking

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If you have an issue with this, you really are a trespasser in an educational setting.